Health Services Research in Under-Served Populations

服务不足人群的卫生服务研究

• 批准号: 6643363
• 负责人: Jean L Freeman
• 金额: $ 40.23万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MED BR GALVESTON
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-09-30 至 2004-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6643363
• 关键词: Mexican Americans; behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; curriculum; health care service; health economics; health science research support; health services research tag; human subject; medically underserved population; outcomes research; questionnaires; statistics /biometry

DESCRIPTION (APPLICATION ABSTRACT): The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) played a major role throughout the 20th century in Texas and nationally in educating minority physicians. For example, by 1978, two-thirds of all physicians of Hispanic origin in the United States had trained at UTMB. The UTMB School of Medicine ranks fourth among all public and private schools in the percentage of graduates from under-represented minority groups. UTMB also has many excellent faculty from minority groups. While UTMB has relatively strong research programs in some areas, such as epidemiologic studies of older Mexican Americans, it lacks the appropriate infrastructure to foster a strong program in health services research (HSR). The overall aim of this current application is to increase the capacity of UTMB and its faculty to conduct rigorous health service research. The support from the Minority Research Infrastructure Support Program will be leveraged by additional funding from the UTMB Sealy Center on Aging, the Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, and the School of Allied Health Sciences, which will allow us to substantially increase the number of faculty and students conducting HSR. A major focus of that research will involve studies of medically underserved populations. Our specific aims are as follows: 1) Increase the number of current UTMB faculty who conduct health services research, 2) recruit additional faculty with specific research expertise in HSR, and 3) strengthen the HSR infrastructure of UTMB. The ideal state that we wish to achieve is as follows: UTMB would have vibrant, productive HSR throughout the clinical departments with a focus on studies of underserved populations. UTMB will have a cadre of independently funded minority HSR investigators, who will serve as role models and mentors in our ongoing efforts to recruit students and junior faculty from under-represented minority groups into HSR. Finally, the structure of HSR research will be like the hub and spokes of a wheel, with independent HSR investigators in most clinical departments, supported by the hub of the program in HSR, which coordinates the HSR curriculum, provides research support services, and oversees faculty recruitment and mentoring.

描述（应用摘要）：德克萨斯大学医学分支机构 （UTMB）在20世纪在德克萨斯州和全国范围内发挥了重要作用 在教育少数族裔医生中。例如，到1978年，三分之二 美国西班牙裔的医生在UTMB接受了培训。这 UTMB医学院在所有公立和私立学校中排名第四 来自代表性不足的少数群体的毕业生百分比。也是UTMB 有许多来自少数群体的优秀教师。而UTMB相对 某些领域的强大研究计划，例如老年人的流行病学研究 墨西哥裔美国人，缺乏适当的基础设施来促进一个强大的 卫生服务研究计划（HSR）。 当前应用的总体目的是提高能力 UTMB及其教职员工进行严格的卫生服务研究。支持 从少数族裔研究基础设施支持计划将由 UTMB Sealy衰老中心的额外资金，部门 预防医学和社区健康以及盟军健康学校 科学，这将使我们大大增加教师的数量 和指导hsr的学生。该研究的重点将涉及 对医学缺乏的人群的研究。 我们的具体目的如下：1）增加当前UTMB的数量 进行卫生服务研究的教师，2）招募其他教师 具有特定的HSR研究专业知识，3）加强HSR UTMB的基础架构。我们希望实现的理想状态是 以下内容：UTMB在整个临床上都会具有充满活力的生产性HSR 专注于服务不足人群的部门。 UTMB会 拥有由独立资助的少数族裔HSR调查人员的干部，他们将 在我们持续招募学生的努力中充当榜样和导师 以及来自代表性不足的少数群体的初级教师到hsr。最后， HSR研究的结构将就像轮子的轮毂和辐条一样，带有 大多数临床部门的独立HSR调查人员，由 该计划的枢纽在协调HSR课程的HSR中提供了 研究支持服务，并监督教师 招聘和指导。